Certainly the entire thing is a rant, but my point is not to criticize the naïveté, it’s to sympathize with it. Unfortunately, you win the election, you run th

Certainly the entire thing is a rant, but my point is not to criticize the naïveté, it’s to sympathize with it. Unfortunately, you win the election, you run the social network, your revolution is successful, and you come face to face with the actual challenges your predecessors faced. This is the source of our continued frustration with elections doing nothing. Without a theoretical leap in solving problems at scale, there is little to be done, and the variances between solutions are just fiddling with coefficients. It’s easy to think that some shadowy league of dentists is preventing a cavity cure from reaching the market, or that the forces of for-profit healthcare are arrayed together in an alleyway. We love to think that a very large series of people have just not had the balls to stand up to our favorite caricature of an enemy, but the truth is usually nuanced, complex, and slow. The asterisk at the end of simple solutions is usually “provided everyone agrees with me or bends to my will” We’d likely both chew our own leg off to escape the meeting to eliminate this billing line item, both blaming it on some complexity upstream we can’t agree on.